If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world. (Robespierre Maximilien)
In a patriarchal society, all heterosexual intercourse is rape because women, as a group, are not strong enough to give meaningful consent. (Robespierre Maximilien)
n a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. (Robespierre Maximilien)
But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder. (Robespierre Maximilien)
A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world. (Robespierre Maximilien)
At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs. (Robespierre Maximilien)
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. (Robespierre Maximilien)
For as long as our people are held hostage by controllable socio-economic forces, we cannot afford to be indifferent to the ravages of poverty in all its dimensions and ramifications. (Robespierre Maximilien)
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.
Ibrahim Babangida (Robespierre Maximilien)
If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is of course the nature of historical contraction that the shortest distance to a historical destination is never a straight line. (Robespierre Maximilien)
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages. (Robespierre Maximilien)
Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief. (Robespierre Maximilien)
The work of Nigeria is not complete for as long as there is any one Nigerian who goes to bed on empty stomach. (Robespierre Maximilien)
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